Catharine Edwards

A wonderful book. The complexities and paradoxes of Cicero’s character are as fascinating as those which characterised the Roman Republic in the final decades of its existence – and no biography I have rea ...

Tom Holland, author of Rubicon and co-host of The Rest is History

Wonderful... Edwards has done a marvellous job of showing us Cicero the man, the scholar and the politician in highly entertaining style

Emma Southon, author of A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

A man of thought in an age of thugs, a pen amongst swords: every age needs its Cicero and Edwards has written a resonant Cicero for ours

Peter Stothard, author of Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

Wonderful... Edwards has done a marvellous job of showing us Cicero the man, the scholar and the politician in highly entertaining style

Emma Southon, author of A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

A man of thought in an age of thugs, a pen amongst swords: every age needs its Cicero and Edwards has written a resonant Cicero for ours

Peter Stothard, author of Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

A wonderful book. The complexities and paradoxes of Cicero’s character are as fascinating as those which characterised the Roman Republic in the final decades of its existence – and no biography I have rea ...

Tom Holland, author of Rubicon and co-host of The Rest is History

Wonderful... Edwards has done a marvellous job of showing us Cicero the man, the scholar and the politician in highly entertaining style

Emma Southon, author of A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

A man of thought in an age of thugs, a pen amongst swords: every age needs its Cicero and Edwards has written a resonant Cicero for ours

Peter Stothard, author of Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars